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Originally Posted by Darkknight
Made a couple of changes, played around with the arms and added a pinstripe to the letters, numbers and logo. Still carries a similar feel to the original and helps it ready a bit better.
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The yellow does help the legibility, but I'm not sure it would be good enough for TV. (Or for fans sitting up in the nosebleeds.)
I can't help thinking of the kerfuffle in Toronto when the NHL first required player names on jerseys. Harold Ballard did not want names on the Leafs' jerseys, because he thought that would cut into sales of programs. (Why would you buy a program to find out who #10 is, when it tells you his name right there on his back?) The league insisted. So Ballard complied, but maliciously: he had the names stitched on in white lettering on the white jerseys, and in blue lettering on the blue jerseys. The league fined him and made him change the colours.
Because of that incident, I expect there is an official league policy requiring the letters and numbers to be in a contrasting colour. It isn't listed in the formal rules about uniforms, but Rule 9 does say that the colours have to be 'approved'. I am pretty certain that black numbers and letters on a black jersey would not be approved — no matter what colour of trim you put around the edges.